Twenty-one Filipino seafarers returned to Manila on Aug. 15 after separate incidents involving three vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Malaysia and the northern Black Sea, the Philippines’ Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said.
The group included three crew members from the M/V Abu Al Abyad, seven from the M/V En Ocean and 11 from the M/V Europe I.
The three Filipino crew members of the M/V Abu Al Abyad were sent home after the vessel was involved in projectile attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.
Seven crew members of the M/V En Ocean returned after the vessel broke down and was later abandoned in Malaysia.
The 11 Filipino crew members of the M/V Europe I were taken off the vessel before its planned voyage through designated High-Risk and Warlike Areas in the northern Black Sea.
One of the returning seafarers said help from the Philippine government prevented them from being exposed to the
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